Information Technology Storage Engineer

Rakesh Reddy Peddareddygari

Dallas, Texas, United States

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Summary

Experienced Senior Storage Technology Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in EMC Storage, NETAPP & HP 3PAR Storage Area Network (SAN)

& NAS, Installation, configuration and upgrade experience on storage arrays along with the server and storage migration experience and Troubleshooting. Versatile team player with Problem solving, Scripting & Documentation skills. Superior communication, analytical, organizational and presentation skills. Experience

Sr Storage Engineer

Lumen Technologies

Aug 2020 - Present (3 years 9 months)

• Worked on Installation & Configuration of HP 3PAR 8200 & Netapp(ONTAP) AFF all flash storage systems.

• Worked as Storage engineer to maintain, assess, report, break/fix, install, decommission, architect storage related tasks and systems.

• Worked on EMC Isilon, Data Domain, Avamar & Nimble systems day to day with maintenance of the systems, software and hardware.

• Performed code upgrades with DELL EMC on the Isilon & Data Domain systems.

• Performed code upgrade on Nimble systems with HPE.

• Performed storage and backup related reporting day to day using tools like EMC IDPA, HPE Infosight and EMC InsightIQ.

• Installed & assisted in additional storage expansion for Isilon, Data Domain and Nimble systems.

• Worked on DR activity to relocate the production datacenter and the DR datacenter which includes storage related DR activities like Isilon superna eyeglass configuration, backup systems updates and database relocations.

• Setup automated reports for isilon and backup systems.

• Performed VTL migrations and maintained VTL libraries in Data Domain.

• Migrate VH servers on SAN 2.0 from old 3PAR/netapp to new 20800 & AFF arrays using Storage vMotion.

• Introduced and performed Peer Zoning on Brocades which cut down the number of zones and maintain a clean Configuration on switches.

• Perform Peerzoning to all the dedicated ports on 3par & netapp systems especially for AIX hosts with LPARs and their Migration

• Worked on Isilon code upgrades, New h500 & a200 node additions, data center rack expansions.

• Was part of OCI to CI(Cloud Insights) migrations as part of cloud infra migration project for better reporting and infrastructure management

• Capacity reporting for Netapp using OCI, Isilon using InsightIQ, HPE Nimble using Infosight Sr Storage Engineer

Oncor Electric Delivery

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Apr 2019 - Jul 2020 (1 year 4 months)

• Architected & Worked on Installation & Configuration of HP 3PAR 8200 all flash storage systems along with 6 new Infinidat F series system installations and configurations.

• Worked on New Brocade DCX switch installations, Code upgrades and decommissions

• Decommissioned old HP 3par V800 systems along with migrations from old to new 8200s.

• Worked on day to day activities like snapshots, backups, allocations, data & replication management tools like Actifio.

• Worked with remedy & Jira ticketing systems, Netapp Data ONTAP, Netapp OCI for reporting and capacity planning.

• Worked on Infinidat replications and snapshots between datacenters along with Infinimetrics for the reporting and capacity planning.

• Worked on vMSC between datacenters for the disaster recovery setup and participated in disaster recovery planning which included vMWare, HP 3par, Infinidat and Brocades.

• Was able to involve in architecting the new installations, migrations, capacity planning, RCAs, data copy & Management appliances like ACTIFIO.

• Performed Storage vMotion in vsphere for data migration from old v800 to new 28k 3par systems, data store creation, provisionin, mounting and migrations. Sr IT Storage Engineer

CenturyLink

Oct 2016 - Apr 2019 (2 years 7 months)

• Worked to upgrade Netapp nodes from 8.2 to 8.3.x.x code levels and assisted in new Netapp cluster and Hp 3PAR installations.

• Worked with Operations Manager/Filer View for FAS-3020/3040/6000 Administration/configuration, LUN creation, NFS/CIFS share creation, exports, Qtrees, Quota allocation/management.

• Worked with Netapp CLI for 7 mode and cDOT, HP 3PAR and Brocade to allocate SAN storage for Linux and ESX hosts.

• Created Confluence pages and Run books for various procedures and performed presentations to share knowledge with team and automate process.

• Worked on Vantive VMAC tool for day to day, break fix and install operations for storage hardware and software issues.

• Experience in BMC Remedy tool to create incident tickets for issues, assisted Vendors to open access tickets for performing disk, Shelf and hardware replacements.

• Used Operations Manager for performance monitoring & troubleshooting, Support for FAS 3020/3040/6000 - Ontap upgrades and Disk firmware upgrades.

• Implementations included Non-Disruptive Upgrades, installs and provisioning NetApp 8.x.x-7Mode, and NetApp Cluster-Mode.

• Experience in creating Common Provisioned Groups (CPG), Virtual Volumes(VV), creating Hosts, exporting Virtual Volumes to Host, Creating QOS templates and policies in HP-3PAR.

• Created Excel and Shell scripts to ease and to automate parts of data collection and migration processes.

• Have experience in performance monitoring tools like OCI(onCommand Insight), OCUM(OnCommand Performance Manager), System Reporter.

• Assisted in Brocade migrations from SAN 1.0 to new Brocade SAN 2.0 project to migrate switches to new Brocade Core Edge SAN and extensively Installed and Upgraded Broacde switches.

• Have experience with HUS and HNAS and perform day to day allocations and troubleshoot issues. Storage Specialist

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CVS Health

Jul 2016 - Sep 2016 (3 months)

• Allocated storage using Auto Provisioning in VMAX by creating storage group, initiator group, port group and creating masking views using Unisphere for Windows, Solaris, Linux and HP-UX, AIX and VMWARE servers.

• Utilized strong customer interface and technical skills to help obtain customer specific requirements, server and operating system specific information to produce project implementation plans and systems design documentation.

• Performed SAN allocations in VNX along with NAS allocations (CIFS/NFS) for Vmware ESX hosts.

• Performed data replication as a part from geo location as part of data migration using Recoverpoint and configured snapshots.

• Planned and designed storage solution models that were deployed in remote locations for specific business application requirements and budget constraints.

• Performed migrations of database schema and replicated the migrated data to new VMAX3 array from VNX.

• Performed installation of VNX and Recover point clusters using EMC Deployment Manager.

• Performed LUN realignments on Vmware and performed VMotion/storage vmotion. Sr.SAN Implementation Specialist

Dell Technologies

Jun 2013 - Mar 2016 (2 years 10 months)

• Worked with EMC as a resident for Data migrations and storage administration involving Netapp, Isilon, VMAX, Vplex, Cisco, Brocade environment

• NetApp FAS-3000/6000 Series Filer Administration, NFS/CIFS configuration, exports, quota management, near store Administration, and Data migration support.

• Experience in Data Fabric Manager/Operation Manager for NetApp storage Allocation and Monitoring for issues.

• Extensive experience in Snap Mirror, Snap Vault for replication, performed LUN migrations from 7- mode/EMC arrays to cDOT using DTA2800 and backup support.

• Extended extensive support for DMX 1000, 2000, 3000, CX600, CX700 CX 3-80

• Configured, managed and monitored a SAN storage infrastructure that comprised of EMC DMX, Vmax storage arrays and Hitachi USP/USP-V arrays

• Configured and managed Cisco and Brocade fabric environment along with Path Management and Zoning.

• Performed extensive Storage and Fabric Migrations of 3+ PB storage from EMC/Hitachi/Hp 3PAR to EMC Arrays using PPME, Vplex DM, VxVM (Windows/Linux) and LVM migration Methods.

• Install & Upgrade Powerpath/ME, HDLM, HBAnyware on Windows, SUSE Linux, AIX and HP-UX Operating Systems to incorporate load balancing and path failover.

• Installed and configured VMware vSphere 5/6 Infrastructure, supported the performance and redundancy for the VMware ESXi hosts and Datastores.

• Provided support for data migration from Celerra NS600 to FAS 3020/3040.

• Created zoning between EMC/HDS arrays and Hosts on Brocade/Cisco switches.

• Worked on BMC Remedy Ticketing System to create Change requests for Migrations, Array Upgrades and troubleshooting issues.

• Performance monitoring of the environment which includes Natapp FAS filers, EMC VMAX, VNX, VPLEX, Isilon, XIO and HDS USP, USP-V and generate performance reports as per Customer needs. SAN Administrator

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Sepaton

Oct 2012 - Apr 2013 (7 months)

Applied technical expertise to design, deploy and sustain standard to moderately complex Storage

(SAN/NAS) and Server at customer sites in support of internal and external customers.

• Lead the implementation of an engagement. Participate in the installation, customization, and integration of SAN/NAS solution that includes Storage, Switch, Directors and FC.

• Allocated storage from a Clarrion array using Navisphere manager and navicli to different platforms such as Solaris, AIX and windows.

• Creating RAID groups, dynamically LUN Expansion on NetApp and Enterprise class storage. Taking Auto Dump, analyze the load on storage, check the storage component status.

• Provided assistance in migration on AIX with the built in Logical Volume Manager tool and mirroring.

• Assisted in redesign and upgrade of the current backup environment, including hardware refresh and Netbackup upgrade to current levels.

• Involved in migration of the HP EVA storage data to the new HP 3PAR platform.

• Created Alerts and thresholds in ECC for proactive monitoring.

• Design and maintain NetApp and Isilon storage environments that supports enterprise applications, including use of AD, shell scripting to help with large data transfers in NetApp and Isilon.

• Created TimeFinder Clone and BCV sessions and presented the volumes to the servers as needed.

• Migrated about 60TB of data using MirrorView/A from one CLARiiON to another.

• Responsible for ensuring proper deployment of new VMware ESX Server, server-based software

• Configuring & troubleshooting storage devices like Dell PowerVault, HP Blade servers, HP XP & EVA disk arrays, and NetApp filers on VMware ESX Server

• Managed Zoning, Masking, LUN provisioning and performed software/hardware maintenance as appropriate.

Unix/SAN Administrator

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Nov 2011 - Oct 2012 (1 year)

• Writing a Test Plan for Brocade and Cisco Fabrics.

• Configuring Test Bed which has Servers, Switches and Storage Arrays.

• Installed UNIX/Windows Operating Systems.

• Responsible for creation hypers, meta devices on V-MAX, DMX & VNX storages and mapping and masking the LUN’s to new servers.

• Performed backups on SAN switches using sanconfig, submitting supportsave details to vendor for troubleshooting as per requirement and replacing faulty SFP’s on SAN switches.

• Binding LUN’s and mapped them to appropriate Hosts.

• Configured zoning on FC Switches using the Vendors Fabric Manager for Storage access.

• Configured Hard/Soft Zones according to the Test Plan.

• Installed UNIX Operating System on a BOOT for SAN Environment, provide L3 engineering and problem resolution support for critical issues in NAS and SAN environment Along with FC switches.

• Performed maintenance work on updating Firmware, troubleshooting path failures, device failures, creating new file systems, mounting file systems and unmounting file systems.

• Installed VERITAS Volume Manager and Powerpath on Red hat Linux servers.

• Managed Cisco and Brocade Switches/Directors and provided support for multi-path Fiber Channel storage systems, as well as AIX servers configured with multiple Fiber Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters

(HBA) on a Storage Area Network (SAN).

• Administered workstation configuration and connectivity to servers, databases, and applications, supported LAN servers, peripherals, network nodes, data warehouse and enterprise management. Rakesh Reddy Peddareddygari - page 4

• Solved Complex Problems faced by customers and provided On Call Support for Trouble Shooting.

• Assisted in data migration from DMX 2 to VMAX using Open Replicator.

• Solved and documented the problems for future reference.

• Migrated the SAN from brocade fabric to Cisco fabric. Education

University of New Haven

Master's degree, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology 2009 - 2011

Bellary Engineering College

2003 - 2007

Licenses & Certifications

ITIL certified - PeopleCert

GR750504840RP

Hp 3par SSMC Trained - HP

Skills

Storage Solutions • Storage Architecture • Data Migration • Storage Virtualization • Attention to Detail

• Hitachi Storage • Storage • Servers • Storage Area Network (SAN) • Virtualization Rakesh Reddy Peddareddygari - page 5

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